Commercial gambling is a recent historical phenomenon. It has developed into a profitable industry that supplies a range of recreational activities to its customers, and is a significant way of collecting money from players to distribute to companies, state budgets, and other beneficiaries. Many of these are civil society organizations, using the money for producing services in sports, culture, social work, and health care. However, gambling can also develop into pathological behaviour. Using a public interest framework, this book discusses the policies that will best serve the public good and minimize individual and collective harms. After describing the historical context of the gambling and the current global burden of the activity, available methods of regulating the industry are evaluated using the available scientific evidence. By analysing the effectiveness of gambling policies and their alignment with the public interest, the epidemiological obstacles to successful regulation are considered in detail. There is good evidence for the effectiveness of restrictions on availability and access, but preventing gambling-related harm is not possible without limiting the overall volume of the activity, and hence the profits for the gambling industry and governments. Taking an international approach, this book delivers a comprehensive review of the epidemiological evidence documenting the harmful effects of gambling on individuals, communities, and societies. Essential reading for policymakers, social and behavioural scientists in gambling research, and public health researchers, Setting Limits examines a global view of an emerging epidemic of gambling problems.

Setting Limits: Gambling, Science and Public Policy

Politics & Social Sciences

Orford, Jim

Sulkunen, Pekka

Babor, Thomas F.

Cisneros Ornberg, Jenny

Egerer, Michael

Hellman, Matilda

Livingstone, Charles

Marionneau, Virve

Nikkinen, Janne

Room, Robin

Rossow, Ingeborg

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

The Saturated Society: Governing Risk & Lifestyles in Consumer Culture (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)

Carefully analyzing the impact of the rise of consumer society it deftly argues that the saturation of the modern ideals of progress, individualism, and the democratic state has limited lifestyle regulation to stressing the self-responsibility of individuals within a free market. 
The book critically examines:
<ul>
<li>Neo-Liberal ideology and the free market</li>
<li>The Sociology of Modernity</li>
<li>The New Consumer Society</li>
<li>Citizenship in Mass Society</li>
<li>The power of Autonomy</li>
<li>The interaction of Regulation and Agency</li>
</ul>

Sociology

Sage Publications Ltd.

Carefully analyzing the impact of the rise of consumer society it deftly argues that the saturation of the modern ideals of progress, individualism, and the democratic state has limited lifestyle regulation to stressing the self-responsibility of individuals within a free market. The book critically examines:Neo-Liberal ideology and the free marketThe Sociology of ModernityThe New Consumer SocietyCitizenship in Mass SocietyThe power of AutonomyThe interaction of Regulation and Agency

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